Broncos crush Chippewas

Know one ever said the road to winning was ever easy.
Saturday, Central was dealt another huge set back on its way to becoming a championship
caliber team.
The Chips were treated to their worst home loss at the friendly confines of Kelly/Shorts
Stadium when Boise State came in and man handled Central 47-10 Saturday.
The previous mark was 27 points when Central lost 30-3 to Youngstown State in
1989.
“I said coming into this football game, this would be the best football that
we’d face all year,” Head Coach Mike DeBord said.
The Broncos jumped out to a quick 13-0 lead in the first quarter and never looked
back.
The first score was a 17-yard touchdown pass from Boise State’s Bart Hendricks
to Brian O’Neal. The second score was a little over a minute later when David
Mikell ran in a 20-yard touchdown on a double reverse.
The second touchdown was set up when CMU’s Pete Shepherd was sacked at the
Central 23.
“The was a key momentum getter for us,” Boise State Head Coach Dirk
Koetter said. “It was big for us to get the ball back right after we just
scored.”
The Chips would get on the board and cut the lead to 10 on a Paul Savich 35-yard
field goal. However, it would be the last time they would score until the final
quarter.
On the ensuing play after the Central kickoff, the Broncos wasted no time getting
another score. The first play saw Hendricks complete a 56-yard touchdown pass
to Davy Malaythong making the score 20-3.
The last two scores of the half would be by Brock Forsey. The first was a one-yard
run and the second was a 23-yard reception from Hendricks making the halftime
score 34-3.
Boise State started its first possession of the second half on its own two-yard
line. The Broncos took the ball 98 yards on 12 plays and scored on a Mikell 13-yard
touchdown run.
“That was a great drive,” Koetter said. “It’s the way we would
like to draw it up every game.”
Central’s final score came with a couple of firsts. Redshirt freshman quarterback
Derrick Vickers hit senior tight end Eric Salani for a 31-yard touchdown pass
making the score 41-10.
Boise State finished the scoring on a four-yard touchdown run from Aristotle Thompson.
“It’s a daily job to get to winning,” DeBord said. “Are we
as bad as we appeared today? No. I think we came back in the second half and fought
hard.”
For the game Shepherd showed signs of brilliance completing 15-of-22 passes for
137 yard. However, DeBord would not name him as the starter next week.
“We’ve got to put this game behind us and move on, that’s football,”
DeBord said. “We’ve got to keep fighting. Fighters win. Our day will
come and we’ll enjoy it.”
The Chippewas now start a stretch of seven straight Mid-American Conference games
to end the season when they travel to Toledo for a 7 p.m. Saturday game.